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Welcome to my page. It's not highly developed yet, but I'll tell you a little about me. I am an omnist, which has various definitions. You can find the word in the Unabridged Webster's or the Oxford English Dictionary, but I define it as "someone who accepts truth from all sources." That requires a discipline as rigorous as science, but from a radically different perspective. Where science essentially subscribes to a fundamental skepticism, asserting not truth but robustness when an hypothesis has not been shown false, omnism requires finding the interpretation which makes a truth claim true. Thus, if someone asserts something to be true, if one assumes it is true, then it becomes necessary to determine by what logic this would hold most consistently with the related claims made by the same claimant. That may require understanding the semantic differences in meaning and interpretation. It does not mean, however, accepting any meaning or interpretation, for truth itself must be the test. It does mean that language must be understood as a medium which both conceals and reveals meaning. Truth, or knowledge of reality is a deeper experience, which requires disciplined awareness, honesty, courage, and humility, for no matter what we believe, others may experience or be aware of something else. Science is neither elevated nor discounted in this process. Rather, science serves as an important methodological test by which a truth claim is operationalized and then subjected to efforts to show it to be false. That said, science exhibits validity within the rigorous meaning of its operational claims, but does not therefore disprove a claim beyond its method, which includes its terms of definition. However, this does not permit absurdities. It requires explanations. The failure of science to explain one's experience cannot invalidate the reality of one's experience. Also, a scientific explanation cannot invalidate the validity of an alternative explanation. Both may be "true" if properly understood. And that is what omnism requires: finding truth in all sources.
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